EasyJet announces nine new flight routes from France including to UK

EasyJet has added nine new flight routes for 2025 departing from France, including a direct flight from Bordeaux to Birmingham from May onwards. 

From next year, EasyJet will be offering flights from Bordeaux to Corfu (Greece), Faro (Portugal), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Budapest (Hungary) and Birmingham; from Paris-Orly to Milan-Malpensa; from Nice to Lamezia Terme (Italy) and Santorini (Greece); and from Figari (Corsica) to Milan-Linate. 

This announcement was made on December 11 in a press release and follows the adding of 27 new routes for the 2024/2025 programme announced in October. 

Assuaged fears

It now means that EasyJet offers more than 300 flights from 20 airports in France and further assuages fears that the airline might be withdrawing from the country. 

These fears surfaced when the carrier announced the surprise closure of its base at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, which they held for ten years.

Read more: EasyJet announces surprise closure of its base at Toulouse airport 

A slow post-Covid recovery and the current economic situation were the reasons used to explain this closure. 

EasyJet has six other bases in France, at Paris Orly, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Lyon, Nice, Nantes and Bordeaux.

Bordeaux airport was also the location for a surprise departure when Ryanair announced in May that it would no longer offer any flights to the airport from November. 

This was due to fee increases to use Bordeaux-Mérignac airport that were set to come into force from November, which an airport spokesperson then described as the “worst-case scenario”. 

Read more: Bordeaux airport: ‘Ryanair pulling out was our worst-case scenario’

At the time, Ryanair operated 39 lines from Bordeaux airport. EasyJet is now the main airline operator in the airport and offers 38 routes.